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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Hotel Anthrax"

Roundup

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US Germ Warfare Programme [30min]

Allan Urry reveals how the CIA kept a stockpile of some of the world's most lethal biological toxins to use against foreign heads of state who were regarded as a threat to US interests. Series about the early history of the US germ warfare programme.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Hotel Anthrax"